Many people said that submitting image or video sitemap to Google was very helpful for ranking purpose. On the other hand, also many people differ this opinion. They believed that if we submitted the site map to Google, then it would get more information about the site and if the sites doing any wrong thing or if google finds any error on the website, then it would be punished quickly compared to who did not submit their sitemap. So, now I would like to know your opinion about Google Webmaster Tool. Should I use it or not? Please share your thoughts. Thanks to all.
IMHO, no need to submit sitemap to google if your site small, Google claw it without the need of sitemap if your site big, Google will constantly claw anyway btw, sitemap just a hint, not guideline
I think it's just a general thing. Sitemaps make it "easier" for search engines to crawl your site, and can easily be done with free WP plug-ins. I could see it possibly could be a bad thing if you're doing things on your site to manipulate SERP, although after Penguin I would avoid anything along those lines.
There will only be one answer and its YES. Its GOOD to submit your site to google webmaster tool so you pages will index fast.
If your website is designed in Flash or it contain a lot of multimedia content then only you should go for video sitemaps. If you don't have so much multimedia content on your website you need not to submit video sitemaps.
I'm using google webmaster tools for sites, and It is good for sites, Google Webmaster tools will help to fast crawling and indexing a website, as well as It will help to give error pages in our websites also. [h=2][/h]
i think that you should use Google webmaster tool to submit your sitemap. Google will help to fast crawl and index a website
Yes, use it... I really can NOT believe I am seeing people say not too or it don't matter... unbelievable. I bet if those that don't, did, they would have more success. Aside from getting your site crawled faster, it also gives you insight to your rankings. It provides some pretty valuable information. ALSO... it will tell you if google has found any malware that could have been added by hackers, Google uses it to send you messages about your site, if they find errors, or if they decide to penalize your site for selling links and other bad practices, they will send a message to you in your webmaster tools. I have experienced all this myself. I could go on and on about how useful it is and the many things that it is NEEDED for, but I'm sure you get my point. I would highly recommend submitting a sitemap and using the webmaster tools. I do not recommend taking the advice of the few that said not too. Really blows my mind... ------------------------- You can't be serious...? If you really think that I feel sorry for you... and you should probably quit web design and not waste any more of your time...
Through webmaster tools you will find all the website errors detect by google. So, it's helpful to maintain the website quality.
To my opinion, submitting to Google is good. And it's also better to stay far away from doing your "wrong things". Google will certainly find out that even without your sitemap.
lol I got neg repped for my post because apparently in regards to it helping, "yes it does, and you are missing out by not using it..." lol no, it really doesn't, because I've used it. So an amateur called me a noob. That's cute
This may be good or bad thing depending on how good your site is. I usually try to stay from this - but it depends. I don’t think it’s a good idea for Google sniper sorts of sites, but it may be good for an authoritative site (or one in the making).
Google webmaster is free tool. and google webmaster is providing lot of important information like, search queries, sitemap, 301 redirect service, also check there your internal and external back links, Google Webmaster Tool is suggest HTML suggestions. and more. I think you want to use it. bro after all this is free of cost .